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This year’s fund raising event is a Gourmet Coffee Appreciation Workshop! We find this event pretty apt, reason because of the growing love for gourmet coffee in Singapore and we figured most of you want to understand what goes behind that cuppa! We have tied up with Highlander Coffee for this event and they have awesome facilities for this workshop! Thanks for working with us on this! So register your slot now and what better way to learn and contribute to charity at the same time! Please find the event poster link below for more details!

Cookies will be served to all participants! Extremely generous self-baked contribution by Kristine Yu and friends!

Please the following before registering for the workshop:

Note that there are 2 sessions. Please register the session that you can attend.

Please use your real name and contact details in the registration forms. It is important as we need your names to recognize on our site for contributing to our fund raising efforts and at the same time, if there are any changes to this event.

Strictly no children allowed. 13 years old and above only. Dangerous with so much boiling coffees and devices around.

Sessions will commence on time. Please arrive half an hour earlier for registration.

Exact change at the door is preferred.

Each session only for 25 pax. Registration is on first-come-first-served basis. We regret if we cannot slot you in when registration is full.

Looking forward to all your participation, let us all have fun in the name of charity! 🙂

Sorry for not updating sooner as I was awfully swarmed with my big move inter-city within China and finally able to catch some breath over the weekend to work on posting this update.

From our last update, we are already filled for this year’s charity trip to Northern Thailand. So this year we have a total of 16 members heading up to bring joy and fun to the 160+ kids of Baan Mae Ping! This is definitely a record for CGG since we started 5 years ago! Awesome!

While we are organizing our activities up there as well as logistical matters, we are also planning for our fund raising event which will be announced in our next post. We would like to thank our friends and colleagues for some donations coming in every now and then and we will definitely acknowledge and list them down after our trip.

So check out our next post and we really hope to see you at the fund raising event!

Just some updates following from our previous update for this year’s trip to Chiang Mai.

Participants:

We have a total of 13 participants signed up for this trip! Now we are left with only 3 slots for any one of you who are still contemplating in joining us! Email us at cggsingapore@gmail.com to register your interest!

Donations:

We have received some donations from our friends and colleagues these couple of weeks. Similar to our members who commit their leave days and own funds for our annual trips to bring joy and hope to the less fortunate kids, we too have a bunch of friends, family and colleagues who are there supporting us yearly for our projects. Some were skeptical at first but when they see the stuff that CGG does and the appropriate usage of the donated funds, they have more confidence that these monies get to the hands of the needy. Kudos to all our donors in the past years and years to come!

Fund Raising:

We are in the midst of planning our fund raising Coffee Appreciation Cum Latte Art event on the 14th December 2013, Saturday. There will be 2 sessions; morning and afternoon. Details will be out soon sometime this month. Lock in the date first if you’re keen ‘cos we have also locked in that date for the event. 🙂

Bath Towels (Est S$10 each) – These will be used as blankets to keep the kids warm during the winter season from Nov – Jan period.

Participants:

So far we have 11 participants already confirmed with flight tickets and accommodations booked. Dates are still from 25-31st Dec 2013. If you would like to join us in this years trip, we still have 5 more open spots for people we are genuinely keen to experience doing charity out of city areas. Hurry now, base on first-come-first-serve basis! 🙂

Please refer to our previous blog post (http://wp.me/pE63z-a4), we are still looking for sponsors for the items listed. Regardless your donation amount, every bit will help us help the unfortunate kids during our trips. If you can gather some friends, colleagues or family members to sponsor the larger ticket items, it’ll be awesome! And as per all our annual trips, we’ll list out all our donors on this website to recognize them for their selfless contributions so that our trips can be more meaningful to the beneficiaries!

As you may have recently discovered that we have postponed Project Myanmar this year due to the SEA Games which coincidentally will be held in Myanmar at the same time we are suppose to be there. We came to this decision due to the fact that hotel rooms are pretty booked up, while everything else is inflated for this upcoming huge event in Southeast Asia. As a result, we reckon that our every dollar cannot be stretched as much as we expected it to be. We want our donors’ money well spent. At the same time, as all expenses are paid by the members themselves, it will be pretty costly for them as well.

Hence we have brought forward our next year’s project, which is to Chiang Mai. With God’s blessings, we managed to get contacts and information for the north western parts of Thailand, Pai District of Mae Hon Son. Pai is a village within the valley of mountains which is about 4 hours drive from Chiang Mai city. The people there are mainly from hill-tribes and have been living in poverty.

The School/Orphanage:

We have a few options actually but just to mention one of them, which is a school cum orphanage. This school has 200 kids and out of the 200 kids, there are 40 orphans, whom were made orphans overnight by irresponsible parents who dumped them in the school and didn’t come back for them. That’s how poor they are. The kids will be fed lunch in school daily and you can imagine the cost for feeding 200 kids. Their staples have been poor quality broken rice and vegetables. Meat or even noodles are rare unless some charity/volunteer groups come along and buy them lunch when they visit. So quite likely we wanna help this principal who dedicated her life to taking care of these children (especially the orphans), forgoing her own marriage and possible city life.

How You Can Help:

Contributions can be in the form of the following:

Sponsor A Bag Of Rice – S$50 for 100kg of broken rice. They need basic necessities like these on top of other stuff like mosquito nets, sanitary pads, soap, milk powder.

Sponsor A Lunch Of Love – We will engage a cook from an eatery in Pai to cook a simple noodle soup lunch for 200 kids and staff. Cost is around S$500 per lunch. (We were told that some kids can eat 3-4 bowls as they do not know when they will get to eat this again.)

Donate A Cartridge Of Polaroid Films – We need around 25 cartridges so that each kids will get to keep a Polaroid picture taken with one or more of our members. So that they will be reminded that when they grow up, they can also help others in need.

There will be excess from these money that are donated and we will donate them to the school.

We will be organizing a Coffee Appreciation Session also, price at around S$50 per pax. Venue and date yet to be confirmed. Same thing, surplus will be donated to the school. We will also be using our balance funds from last year to buy stationeries and snacks for the kids, and maybe donate some money also. All spending and donors will be mentioned in this website after the whole event, just like what we did for the past few years.

Tentative Dates:

25th to 30th Dec 2013

For those who wanna join us in this expedition, we are limiting to 16pax only. Our members going this year consist of 9 pax already. All base on first-come-first-join basis. 🙂 All expenses (air tickets, accommodation, transportation, food, tour, etc) will be shared and paid out of the participant’s pocket. Funds collected will be used for the beneficiary/beneficiaries only.

So if you and your mates would like to sponsor or donate any of the above-mentioned, or if you would like to join us for this trip, please email us at cggsingapore@gmail.com. Be sure to ‘Follow Us’ here, our Twitter @caregiversgroup and our Facebook Page for further announcements for the trip and activities.

We need all the help we can get! Looking forward to hear from you guys! 🙂

On behalf of all members and beneficiaries of Care Givers Group, I would like to thank all family, friends and partners who have donated or contributed in any way to our year of activities. We can only do so much but with your support, we can go further to reach out to more kids in need in Asia. God bless y’all!

TOTAL COLLECTED (2012)

AMOUNT (SGD)

FUND BAKE

$1,700.00

COOKIES OF LOVE

$2,190.00

CASH DONATION

$3,850.00

CARD SALES

$847.00

TOTAL COLLECTION (2012)

$8,587

TOTAL EXPENDITURE (2012)

$5,546

BALANCE FUNDS (2012)

$3,041

DONATION BROUGHT FORWARD (2011)

$1,272

BALANCE FUNDS CARRY FORWARD TO 2013

$4,313

DONOR LIST

COOKIES SALE

CARD SALES

CASH DONATION

FUND BAKE

STUDENT SPONSORSHIP

Sharon Nai

Roshe

Sun Chen Nan

Chia Hwee Lang

Yan Yan

Rosy Ho

Chua Beng Wah

Xu Pei hui

Roy Lim

Rosalind Lim

Roy Lim

Sue Yap

Roy

isobel li dingding

Han Joo

Sharon Nai

Rosaline Lee

Glynis Hong

Yee Wei Ling

Aileen Wong

Lee Siew Poh

SUN Chen-Nan

Dennis Cheong

Penny Choo

Lee Siew Poh’s mum

Weng Cha

Kok Eugene

Chew Keng Wah

Dennis Cheong

Ampara Aramcharoen

Kong Tuck Chee

Adeline Koh

Saudah H M N

Diana

Tey Ju Nie

Guan Leng

Maxx

Carmen

Koh shi ying

Shermaine

Tan Tai Ngiap

Rosaline

Magendran

Phil

Quek Sze Wei

Lim Peck Cheng

Lee Bing Yang

Kon How

Natalie Sok Gek Bay

Tay Yu Ling

Deng Xinying

June

Amy Ng Khuang Choo

Pu Lu

Zinkie Aw

HuiShi

Goh Puay Yew

Zhang Jiazhen

Roshe

Ye Ling

Toh Lay Hong

Teh Qing Li

Goh Chwee Sim

Marisca

Diana Chng Lay Yan

Rachel Chan

Lee Siew Poh

Peter

Peh Pei Ru

Sharon Nai

Chitra Kumar

Andrew

Ching Sieh Woon

Ang Xiao Fang

Sue Yap

Roy

Joyce Chan

Maxx Chew

Lina Nai

Ong Teck Guan

Sim King Huei

Jonathan Seow

Julia Nai

Annie

Samantha Ong

Shen Jau

Yvonne

Wei Lin

Lin Wanqing

Han Joo

Cai Shiyun

Jason

Yap Qiuyi

Rachel Tan

lance soon

Grace

Isaac Chua

Eugene Kok

Lim Peck Cheng

Juliana

Keith Man

Charlene Soon

Rachel Tan

Andrea

Chong Khai Siang

Nur

Tay Yee Yan

Winnie

Joshua Chua

Brenda Nai

Iris Wee

Tiffany

Samuel Choo

Paul Poh

Jonathan Seow

Faith

Lee Peili

Zhang Nan

Sunnie

Amelia Lim

Elaine Neo

Jane

Rosalind Yeo

Diane Pek

JiaSheng

Chia Suwei

Teng Oon Tang

Ashley

Trina Gan

Adrian Leow

Debbie

Serene Ong

Ho Xinning

Mindy

John Chiah

Tan Sai Choo

Eve

Diana Tan

Lim Lay Huat

Matthew

Sun Chen Nan

Simon

Juay

Shenny

Chen Hui-chi

Rachael Teo

Chai Chai Hoon

Christina Lee

Trina Gan

Lee Siew Hua

Sim King Huei

Goh Tong

Samantha Ong

Iris Wee

Samuel Choo

Lee Kim Kiok

Karen Ow

TC Wee

Audrey Khng

Wee Xin Lin

Tam Yongwei

Wee Xin Hui

Jason Foo

Wee Xin Min

Tay Xinyun

Chia Suwei

Tan Say Hong

Lin Qingyao

Michelle Phoo

Ching Sieh Woon

Daniel Soo

Jamie Chia

Claire Zhang

Seah Seng Chye

Terence Lim

Joyce Puah

Wong Jia Yun

Deborah Chia

Lilian

Thank you all once again and do keep a look out for our activities this year and not forgetting our annual year end trip! If you wanna join us for the trip or contribute in any way, write to us at cggsingapore@gmail.com! We would like to hear from you! 🙂

Sorry for not updating any sooner as everyone was busy with starting the new year in their own careers, then came the Chinese New Year, and I was in pain for about a month for a sprained foot. Finally we finished with the tabulations of the donors and their contributions, as well as what we spent on last year’s project. Will do that posting in the next entry.

Let me talk about our trip to Guizhou. The trip was gruelling as usual and this time our bus got stuck in the mud due to extreme bad weather conditions up in the mountains. So bad that we had to walk uphill for more than half an hour and got the kids to help to pull the bus while we push from behind! Nevertheless, the trip was awesome, for those members who have not been to such trips, it was an experience that they will remember for a long time. Especially so ‘cos we stayed over for a night in the school this time round and spent more time with the kids and staff there.

As usual, we gave out goodie bags to the kids when we arrived and this year we budgeted more for it. We handed out our handmade cards as well with well-wishes from all our donors for the kids. Then we played games with them but due to the limited time we had, we had to release them to go home before it got darker. We had a great dinner although some dishes were not exactly what we expected but overall it was still comforting to have hot steaming rice and our very own Curry Chicken to add to the feast. Later on that night, we wrote our well wishes on the lanterns and let them go into the dark starry sky. When it was time for bed, we were well equipped with our newly bought sleeping bags, snuggled in the wooden rooms and slept the sub-zero degrees night away.

In the morning, we were awoken by the rooster crowing at 5-6am, then from 7-7.30am, the speakers in the school blasted with some Chinese nation songs… Hence we didn’t need any alarm clocks to wake us. 🙂 Breakfast was simple cup noodles and we witness the kids doing their morning exercises before they head for their classes. As we have arranged, we got the Principal to carefully select 4 students with very bad financial conditions and invited their parent/guardian to come to the school in the morning. We presented some money which will provide for the family a year of basic necessities. The worse case was this girl who lost both parents, now taken care by her grandpa, who is really old and feeble. She cried when we gave her the money and grandpa was thanking us profusely. Sigh, we wish we could do more, but this is just one school out of thousands that is not well funded by the Chinese government, just because of the lame excuse of geographical disadvantages.

This trip will probably mark a temporary halt for our outreach efforts in China for now as we will move on to other parts of Asia to touch the hearts of other kids in hope that they will grow up and do what we do, show the kids in need our love and care. You too can do your own charity in your own way, regardless the magnitude. A little effort goes a long way and who knows, that one particular kid may be inspired and remember you for life and give back more to society than you can never imagine.

(P/SS: Our contribution of brand new tables and chairs and school bags could not arrive in time while we were there, hence only after Chinese New Year they were delivered and assembled. Pics coming up in later posts!)